Huntsville gazette., 1887-04-30
PERSONAL AND GENERA.

ieaVlng an ANXIOUS lot OF creditorsand |
depositors behind him.
CHANG YEN HooN, Chinese Minist, TO
Washington, sailed from New Yor on
the % for Havre, accompanied by ,ur
secretaries of legation.
The recent cyclones that ut portns
OF the Northwest were predicted in Pbf. i
Irl B. Hicks Astronomical chart rublisxa
in 1894 --~
AN attempt was made on the s3Io
assassinate George b. Kulp, a promin,t
lawyer Of Wilkesbarre, Pa, by l.. w. l.
Witt, another lawyer His aim was &
fective. and he failed in his attempt, a. {
was lodged in Jail. Dewitt is thoughtb J
be insane /
A SUSPENSION OF the fourth sec nf !
the Interstate Commerce law q 84s !
ordered on the transcontinental e
seventy five days from the 23d inst
Two counterfeiters, Michael Hamm,
and James Fox, have been captured
Indianapolis.
+. L. M. SIMMONS, who was manager
the Hotel del Monte, at Monterey, Cal .
until it was recently destroyed by fire |
was arrested on the 23l on charge o |
having set fire to the building
JOHN METZ, South Bend Nnd.) police
man. who shot tramp few days sine,
in fight with gang of them, was held
by the coroner's jury on charge of mani
slaughter.
LONDON continues excited over the
Parnell letter and the persistent attacks
OF the Times.
EMPEROR WILLIAM of Germany will lay
the foundation of the new palace OF
justice in Berlin on My 25
A TERRIBLE wreck was caused at Pater-
son, N. j., on the 231 by the explosion of
a rotary rag boiler in the Ivanhoe paper
mill. A large portion of the building was
demolished, and Booth & Co.'S silk mill,
across the street, was badly dem ia lized
by the flying boiler crashing into that
structure. About twenty persons were
injured, some Of them severely.
THE Toronto (Oat.) Globe is in high
dudgeon over Lord Salisburys PROPOSE
ton for the settlement of the fisheries
question, and goes so far as to intimate
that fight would be preferable.
THE Americus Republican Club of Pitts
burgh, Pa, will celebrate the sixty fifth
birthday anniversary of General U. S.
Grant by banquet E EsS
IT is thought in England that the Coer-
cion act will be materially modified before
its final passage through Parliament
SHEEHY, the Pinkerton special who
killed boy IN Jersey City, N. j., last Jan
uary at the time Of the coal handlers
strike, mas been indicted for man.
slaughter.
MAJoR-GENERAL c. &. AUGUR has ac-
cepted the position of commands ant of the
camp during the National drill at Wash
ngton
1T is anticipated that general strike of
stove molders will occur throughout the
country over the endeavor to force the
st. Louis patterns into the various found
ries.
MAY will be observed as national
holiday in Mexico, the occasion being the
distribution of prizes won by Mexicans at
the Worlds Exposition at New Orleans.
FIRE in the northwestern portion of
Davenport, Ia, on the 29i, destroyed
to the value Of 80 ,00O Eight
buildings were destroyed.
SENIOR OLIvARRIA, the newly appointed
Venezuelan Minister, arrived in Washing
ton on the 23l, and called on Secretary
Bay yard, accompanied by the retiring
Senr Soteldo.
NEW Asiatic railways being surveyed
toward British India.
By railroad accident on the Northern
Pacific in Washin gtol Territory, on the
oath, six men were killed and eighteen in
jured Ra
CLEVELAND, O., has new murder mys-
terry, almost duplicate Of one committed
at the same spot almost sixteen years ago.
Miss Maggie McCarty is the victim.
A CoNFLAG RATION occurred at Arnaut
Keni, Asia Minor, on the 23l, destroying
1--WE hundred houses and killing many
NJ alto ,lox xyo hoQ 70
eel we'd.
DAVID PRESTON, banker and politician
Of considerable Michigan notoriety,
dropped dead of heart disease at Detroit
On the oath.
Bob INGERsoLL, in card, denies ce rtain
charges recently made against him by
General George A. Sheridan in his lecture
on 'The Modern Pagan
MISS ANNIE NJ. LESLEY, the only daugh-
.er of the late James Lesley, of Philadel-
phia, accidentally shot herself in the right
temple at the res idence of George L.
Nichols, in Brooklyn, on the 23i. Mss
Lesley was twenty-one years old, pretty,
IN expert oars-woman, tennis player and
4 crack shot with q revolver or rife. The
wound proved fatal.
THE wife of Dr. w. W. Wilson, Balti-
more Md dentist, committed suicide on
he 23d. She first took dose of corrosive
,ublimate, then cut her throat from ear
o ear with a razor, and wound up by
umping from a second-story window
She fingered in agony until the morning
# the Gath, W hen death relieved her.
w. D. MORGAN, vice-president of the
New York Stock Exchange, died on the
5th.
ENCOURAGING progress is reported from
expedition to the relief OF Emin
3ey.
IT is reported that Bismal ck did not ad
rise the arrest of the French commissary,
A NEPHEW of the Car has been arrested
N the suspicion of giving away the Cars
movements to Nihilists-
DEBATE was begun on the 25th on the
British budget in the House Of Commons
dr Gladstone spoke in opposition to some
# Mr. Goschen's recommendations
THREE young men named Charles
loren, August Rousseau and Joseph
1uard were drowned at st. Romuald
Quebec, on the oath, by the upsetting OF
,oat. Honore Huard saved himself by |
linging to cake of ice.
THIRTEEN Irish constables, who have |
ecently resigned their places on account |
r fha disfaSteful character of their du- |